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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rows were rice harvesters assigned?

2. Who did Ji Li blame for all her problems?

3. What did the Jr. High teachers have to mix with education?

4. How did Ji Li feel about studying English?

5. What kind of meeting was planned to force Dad into submission?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ji Li find when she woke up on Chinese New Year?

2. How did Ji Li cheer up Ji Yun when she was bullied?

3. What was Dad doing while he was locked up, and why?

4. What happened after Ji Li was injured in the fields?

5. What happened on the morning of the opening of the Exhibition?

6. Why was Ji Li forced to go back to Shang Hai in the summer?

7. Why did Ji Li stop going to school all together?

8. Why did Uncle Fan come to Ji Li's house?

9. What did Ji Li hear her father say the night before Chinese New Year?

10. Why did Lin Lin come to visit Ji Li?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways Mother and Father showed their love to each other, and how did these displays affect Ji Li's ideas about life?

Essay Topic 2

Ji Li endures many different trials before the end of the book. What are some of these trials and what lessons does she learn through these experiences?

Essay Topic 3

What was the significance of the title of this book?

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